Autonomous Subsea Data Operations - Subnero Mid-Year Update
Picture this: a researcher wants four months of seabed ADCP data. No divers, no cables, no vessel, just a login from their desk and a download in about two clicks. That is the seabed to shore delivery we have been building toward, and this update rounds up where things stand at the mid-year mark.
In Focus: Autonomous Data Operations with USVs
Our Acoustic Data Harvesting solution turns uncrewed surface vessels into data mules for the seabed. A USV surveys past a lander, wakes it acoustically, and pulls the data on the move, so the lander stays deployed and the vessel never has to stop and hold station: drive by harvesting instead of a vessel parked overhead, real cost savings compared with a crewed survey, and data delivered to shore in near real time.
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Collaboration Brief: Autonomous Data Harvesting with HydroSurv
Together with HydroSurv, we demonstrated autonomous subsea data operations end to end, an uncrewed surface vessel harvesting data from the seabed with no crewed vessel in the loop.
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Case Study: From Seabed to Shore at MESN
At the MESN-UBN buoy off Pulau Ubin, four months of seabed current data came home with no divers, no cables, and no vessel deployment, retrieved on demand over an acoustic and cellular link.
“Being able to download data from the office whenever we want makes our customers’ work much easier,” said Veronica Tan, Subsea IoT Engineer at Subnero.
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What’s Next: The Building Blocks of Autonomy
A few things we are building on for the rest of the year:
- Gen4X Platform: the connectivity foundation for the next generation of marine robotics integrations
- UnetCloud: simulate and rehearse a mission in the cloud before anything gets wet
- UnetCube: a starting point for custom underwater wireless solutions
- SWIS-ADCP Updates: expanded seabed to shore capability for instrument data retrieval
